Igor Aleksandrovich Berezhnoy: biography. Unknown facts of the biography of the sponsor and father of the child Berezhnoy Berezhnaya aircraft designer

Igor Aleksandrovich Berezhnoy(April 21, Balashov - February 4, Moscow) - designer of aerospace equipment, chief designer of the design bureau automatic systems, professor, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences.

Biography

Born on April 21, 1934 in the city of Balashov, Lower Volga region.

Awards

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (03/10/1981, posthumously)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (04/26/1971)

Main publications

• On the torsion of prismatic rods made of ideally plastic material taking into account microstresses // Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics. - 1963. - No. 5. - P. 154-157. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• On the influence of viscosity on the mechanical behavior of elastic-plastic media // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1965. - T. 163. - No. 3. - P. 595-598. (together with D. D. Ivlev)
• On dissipative functions in the theory of viscoplastic media // Problems of continuum mechanics (to the 60th anniversary of Academician V.V. Novozhilov). - 1970. - P. 67-70. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, E. V. Makarov)
• On deformation models of the theory of plasticity and continuous media // Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. - 1970. - T. 40. - Issue. 3. - pp. 553-557. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, E. V. Makarov)
• On the acquired anisotropy of plastic bodies // Continuum mechanics and related problems of analysis. Sat. articles, dedicated To the 80th anniversary of Academician N. I. Muskhelishvili. M., 1972. S. 601-605. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. V. Dudukalenko)
• On the construction of a model of granular media based on the definition of the dissipative function // Fundamentals of plasticity: Coll. proceedings of the symposium. Warsaw, 1973. pp. 601-605. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. B. Chadov)
• On the construction of a model of granular media based on dissipative functions // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1973. - T. 123. - No. 6. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. B. Chadov)
• On some models built on the basis of the mechanisms of elasticity, viscosity and plasticity with variable defining parameters // Izvestia of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Mechanics solid. - 1974. - No. 1. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, N. V. Gerasimov)
• On the loading function for ideally plastic models // Selected problems of applied mechanics: Sat. articles, dedicated 60th anniversary of Academician V. N. Chelomey. M., 1974. S. 113-117. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. I. Tseyler)
• On the construction of surfaces of complex rigid-plastic models // Mechanics of deformable bodies and structures: Coll. articles. M.: Mechanical Engineering, 1975. pp. 62-70. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. I. Tseyler)
• On the flow of liquid with controlled viscosity // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1975. - T. 223. - No. 3. - P. 582-584. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, N. V. Gerasimov, V. I. Tseyler)
• On some experiments with converging ring waves on the surface of a heavy liquid // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1975. - T. 223. - No. 4. - P. 810-811. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, R. K. Logvinova)
• On defining inequalities in the theory of plasticity // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1976. - T. 227. - No. 4. - P. 824-826. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• Dissipative function in the theory of plasticity // Mechanics of a deformable body: Interuniversity. Sat. Kuibyshev, 1977. Vol. 3. P. 5-22.
• Laser leads to landing // Civil aviation. - 1978. - No. 9. - P. 26-27. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• On integral inequalities of the theory of an elastoplastic body // Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. - 1980. - T. 44. - No. 3. - P. 540-549. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• Defining inequalities in the theory of an elastoplastic body: Abstracts of reports. V All-Union Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Alma-Ata, 1981. (together with D. D. Ivlev)

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- A persuader is a brother to the cause. “As I said by Friday, I did so,” said Plato, smiling and unfolding the shirt he had sewn.
The Frenchman looked around uneasily and, as if overcoming doubt, quickly took off his uniform and put on his shirt. Under his uniform the Frenchman did not have a shirt, but on his bare, yellow, thin body he wore a long, greasy, silk vest with flowers. The Frenchman, apparently, was afraid that the prisoners looking at him would laugh, and hastily stuck his head into his shirt. None of the prisoners said a word.
“Look, just right,” Plato said, pulling off his shirt. The Frenchman, sticking his head and hands through, without raising his eyes, looked at his shirt and examined the seam.
- Well, falcon, this is not a trash, and there is no real instrument; “But it’s said: without gear you can’t even kill a lice,” said Plato, smiling roundly and, apparently, rejoicing at his work.
- C "est bien, c" est bien, merci, mais vous devez avoir de la toile de reste? [Okay, okay, thank you, but where is the canvas, what’s left?] - said the Frenchman.
“It will be even nicer the way you put it on your body,” said Karataev, continuing to rejoice at his work. - That will be good and pleasant.
“Merci, merci, mon vieux, le reste?..” repeated the Frenchman, smiling, and, taking out a banknote, gave it to Karataev, “mais le reste... [Thank you, thank you, dear, but where is the rest?.. Give me the rest. ]
Pierre saw that Plato did not want to understand what the Frenchman was saying, and, without interfering, looked at them. Karataev thanked him for the money and continued to admire his work. The Frenchman insisted on the remainder and asked Pierre to translate what he was saying.
- What does he need the leftovers for? - said Karataev. “They would have given us some important little extras.” Well, God bless him. - And Karataev with suddenly changed, sad face He took out a bundle of scraps from his bosom and, without looking at it, handed it to the Frenchman. - Ehma! - Karataev said and went back. The Frenchman looked at the canvas, thought, looked questioningly at Pierre, and as if Pierre’s gaze told him something.
“Platoche, dites donc, Platoche,” suddenly blushing, the Frenchman shouted in a squeaky voice. – Gardez pour vous, [Platosh, and Platosh. Take it for yourself.] - he said, handing over the scraps, turned and left.
“Here you go,” Karataev said, shaking his head. - They say that they are not Christ, but they also have a soul. The old men used to say: a sweaty hand is a bit too hard, a dry hand is stubborn. He himself is naked, but he gave it away. – Karataev, smiling thoughtfully and looking at the scraps, was silent for some time. “And the important ones, my friend, will be blown out,” he said and returned to the booth.

Four weeks have passed since Pierre was captured. Despite the fact that the French offered to transfer him from a soldier's booth to an officer's booth, he remained in the booth he entered from the first day.
In devastated and burned Moscow, Pierre experienced almost the extreme limits of hardship that a person can endure; but, thanks to his strong constitution and health, which he had not been aware of until now, and especially due to the fact that these deprivations approached so imperceptibly that it was impossible to say when they began, he endured his situation not only easily, but also joyfully . And it was at this very time that he received that peace and self-satisfaction for which he had vainly strived before. For a long time in his life he was looking from different sides for this peace, agreement with himself, for what struck him so much in the soldiers at the Battle of Borodino - he looked for this in philanthropy, in Freemasonry, in the dispersion of social life, in wine, in heroic deeds self-sacrifice, in romantic love for Natasha; he sought this through thought, and all these searches and attempts all deceived him. And he, without thinking about it, received this peace and this agreement with himself only through the horror of death, through deprivation and through what he understood in Karataev. Those terrible minutes that he experienced during the execution seemed to have washed away forever from his imagination and memories the disturbing thoughts and feelings that had previously seemed important to him. Not even a thought came to him about Russia, or the war, or politics, or Napoleon. It was obvious to him that all this did not concern him, that he was not called and therefore could not judge all this. “No time for Russia, no union,” he repeated Karataev’s words, and these words strangely reassured him. His intention to kill Napoleon and his calculations about the cabalistic number and the beast of the Apocalypse now seemed incomprehensible and even ridiculous to him. His anger against his wife and anxiety about not disgracing his name now seemed to him not only insignificant, but funny. What did he care about the fact that this woman was leading the life she liked somewhere out there? Who, especially him, cared whether they found out or didn’t find out that the name of their prisoner was Count Bezukhov?
Now he often recalled his conversation with Prince Andrei and completely agreed with him, only understanding Prince Andrei’s thought somewhat differently. Prince Andrei thought and said that happiness can only be negative, but he said this with a tinge of bitterness and irony. As if, by saying this, he was expressing another thought - that all the aspirations for positive happiness invested in us are invested only in order to torment us, not satisfying us. But Pierre, without any second thought, recognized the justice of this. The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of needs and, as a result, the freedom to choose occupations, that is, a way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be the undoubted and highest happiness of a person. Here, now only for the first time, Pierre fully appreciated the pleasure of eating when he was hungry, drinking when he was thirsty, sleeping when he wanted to sleep, warmth when he was cold, talking with a person when he wanted to talk and listen to a human voice. Satisfaction of needs - good food, cleanliness, freedom - now, when he was deprived of all this, seemed to Pierre to be perfect happiness, and the choice of occupation, that is, life, now that this choice was so limited, seemed to him such an easy matter that he forgot the fact that an excess of the comforts of life destroys all the happiness of satisfying needs, and the greater freedom to choose occupations, the freedom that education, wealth, position in the world gave him in his life, that this freedom makes the choice of occupations insolublely difficult and destroys the very need and opportunity to study.

April 21, 1934 - 1981

outstanding designer of aerospace technology, chief designer of the design bureau of automatic systems, professor, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences

Biography

Entered the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute in 1951. He worked at the Department of Physics, then at the Department of Aircraft Strength.

Killed in February 1981 - blown up in an official car during a business trip in Moscow. He is considered the victim of the first contract murder in the USSR. The investigation into the murder was carried out by the KGB and personally by Yu. V. Andropov. The results of the investigation are unknown.

Main publications

• On the torsion of prismatic rods made of ideally plastic material taking into account microstresses // Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics. - 1963. - No. 5. - P. 154-157. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• On the influence of viscosity on the mechanical behavior of elastic-plastic media // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1965. - T. 163. - No. 3. - P. 595-598. (together with D. D. Ivlev)
• On dissipative functions in the theory of viscoplastic media // Problems of continuum mechanics (to the 60th anniversary of Academician V.V. Novozhilov). - 1970. - P. 67-70. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, E. V. Makarov)
• On deformation models of the theory of plasticity and continuous media // Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. - 1970. - T. 40. - Issue. 3. - pp. 553-557. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, E. V. Makarov)
• On the acquired anisotropy of plastic bodies // Continuum mechanics and related problems of analysis. Sat. articles, dedicated To the 80th anniversary of Academician N. I. Muskhelishvili. M., 1972. S. 601-605. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. V. Dudukalenko)
• On the construction of a model of granular media based on the definition of the dissipative function // Fundamentals of plasticity: Coll. proceedings of the symposium. Warsaw, 1973. pp. 601-605. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. B. Chadov)
• On the construction of a model of granular media based on dissipative functions // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1973. - T. 123. - No. 6. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. B. Chadov)
• On some models built on the basis of the mechanisms of elasticity, viscosity and plasticity with variable defining parameters // Izvestia of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Mechanics of solids. - 1974. - No. 1. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, N. V. Gerasimov)
• On the loading function for ideally plastic models // Selected problems of applied mechanics: Sat. articles, dedicated 60th anniversary of Academician V. N. Chelomey. M., 1974. S. 113-117. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. I. Tseyler)
• On the construction of surfaces of complex rigid-plastic models // Mechanics of deformable bodies and structures: Coll. articles. M.: Mechanical Engineering, 1975. pp. 62-70. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. I. Tseyler)
• On the flow of liquid with controlled viscosity // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1975. - T. 223. - No. 3. - P. 582-584. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, N. V. Gerasimov, V. I. Tseyler)
• On some experiments with converging ring waves on the surface of a heavy liquid // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1975. - T. 223. - No. 4. - P. 810-811. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, R. K. Logvinova)
• On defining inequalities in the theory of plasticity // Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences. - 1976. - T. 227. - No. 4. - P. 824-826. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• Dissipative function in the theory of plasticity // Mechanics of a deformable body: Interuniversity. Sat. Kuibyshev, 1977. Vol. 3. P. 5-22.
• Laser leads to landing // Civil Aviation. - 1978. - No. 9. - P. 26-27. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• On integral inequalities of the theory of an elastoplastic body // Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. - 1980. - T. 44. - No. 3. - P. 540-549. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• Defining inequalities in the theory of an elastoplastic body: Abstracts of reports. V All-Union Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Alma-Ata, 1981. (together with D. D. Ivlev)

30 years ago in Moscow, the head of the aviation design bureau Igor Berezhny was blown up in his official car.

The news of the death of the chief designer of KKBAS then spread almost instantly. Even though it happened in Moscow. After all, every second engineer and two-thirds of Kuibyshev’s workers at that time worked at defense factories. Some veterans of these productions still remember how shocked they were by what happened.

Fell into a "trap"
This is what the Chairman of the KGB of the USSR Yuri Andropov reported to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev about a high-profile emergency in the capital: “February 4, 1981 at about 7:30 p.m. on the street. Kirov in Moscow, in his official car, while opening an explosive device of the “trap” type, camouflaged as a box of medicines and transferred through employees, the chief designer of the Kuibyshev Design Bureau of Automatic Systems (KKBAS) of the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR, Igor Aleksandrovich Berezhnoy, born in 1934, died from the explosion. , doctor technical sciences, Professor KuAI.
Due to the fact that Berezhnoy was a candidate member of the Kuibyshev city committee of the CPSU, a deputy of the city council and the head of the KKBAS, engaged in the development of important defense topics, a criminal case into his death was opened on February 5, 1981 by the Investigative Department of the KGB of the USSR. Taking into account the identity of the deceased and the circumstances of his death, several investigative versions have been put forward and are being studied in the case.”
Nothing like this has ever happened either in Kuibyshev, or in Moscow, or in general in the USSR during all the years of Soviet power. For a “secret” scientist to be physically eliminated in our country, and even in such an exotic way - the KGB could not imagine this even in their worst nightmare.

The other side of the coin
However, in those years, almost no one knew about the second side of Igor Berezhny’s life, which was carefully hidden from the public eye - about his participation in fraud under the guise of the KKBAS sign. It is possible that no one would have known about this if the above-mentioned emergency had not happened. After the explosion in the car and the death of the designer, the State Security Committee took up the affairs of the KKBAS closely. Based on the fact of the emergency, criminal case No. 59 was opened here, which the security officers themselves called “Trap”.
And the results of the first checks shocked even the KGB leadership. During the subsequent audit, numerous abuses surfaced in the financial and economic activities of the bureau. As a result, the USSR Prosecutor's Office opened another criminal case on August 25, 1981 - first under Art. 170 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (abuse of official position), and then under Art. 93-1 (theft of state property on an especially large scale).
It turned out that the management of KKBAS simply wrote off inventory items purchased using budget funds. The head of the technical department of the design bureau, 47-year-old Gennady Nerozya, his deputy, 28-year-old Vladimir Nekhoroshev, the photographer of the same department, 32-year-old Mikhail Tsygankov, and the head of the special technical bureau of KKBAS in Moscow, 58-year-old Solomon Berenshtein, were involved in this.
All of the above scammers were supposed to be arrested on the same day, but Tsygankov drank a lethal dose of dichloroethane before his arrest. During the arrest, Nerozya also tried to commit suicide, stabbing himself in the stomach in front of the investigator, but he was immediately taken to the hospital, where doctors saved his life. Nekhoroshev was soon released from the pre-trial detention center on his own recognizance, since the investigation considered that the total volume of abuses he had committed was not too large.
It turned out that Nerozy, who, being a financially responsible person, wrote off and then sold at a good price literally everything that came to his hand: large quantities of imported Kodak film, Orvo-Chrome and Orvo-Chrome photographic films. Color", imported color photo paper and chemicals, and so on. Tsygankov helped him sell off the written-off deficit.
In addition, by mutual conspiracy, the thieves converted into cash other material assets regularly purchased by KKBAS - televisions, projectors, furniture, ethyl alcohol, spare parts, fabric, etc. In total, during 1976-1981, scammers were able to steal state property for a total amount of 21,266 rubles. Huge money for those times, considering that average salary engineer did not exceed 120 rubles per month.
As for the role of Igor Berezhny himself, the investigator for particularly important cases of the USSR Prosecutor’s Office Nikolai Antipov issued the following resolution: “... Berezhny’s actions... contain signs of a crime under Art. 92 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR.” However, here the investigator decided: “The criminal case against Igor Aleksandrovich Berezhny should be terminated with further proceedings due to the latter’s death.”

Prosecutor's decision
But, of course, most of all the investigation was interested in another question: who exactly and, most importantly, why was it necessary to eliminate Igor Berezhny? From the materials available in the case, it is clear that the KGB of the USSR almost immediately ruled out the possible participation of foreign intelligence services in the case. Therefore, they began to look for the cause of the emergency in Kuibyshev, within the KKBAS.
But the first culprits of the incident were named only three years after Berezhny’s death. The resolution of the Investigative Directorate of the KGB of the USSR dated January 30, 1984 states this as follows: “... it was established that the homemade explosive device was handed over to Berezhny... through other persons by Nerozya, who admitted that he had committed a crime on domestic grounds. In this regard, he was charged under paragraph “d” of Art. 102 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR" (premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances. - V.E.). After this, all materials about the explosion were separated from the general criminal case and transferred for further action from the KGB of the USSR to the USSR Prosecutor's Office.
It would seem that the investigation into the emergency is almost completed. The main criminal has been identified, and now only a few formalities need to be settled and the case brought to court. However, on November 12, 1984, the USSR Prosecutor's Office issued a resolution ... to terminate this criminal case due to the “lack of proof of the charges brought against Nerosa.”
The author of these lines was unable to find any information about whether the search for those responsible for the murder of the head of the secret Kuibyshev Design Bureau continued after this in the Union Prosecutor's Office. However, it is obvious that even if the investigation continued, it did not lead to the capture of any other criminals.

Killer unknown
In the spring of 1985, the criminal case against Nerosi, Nekhoroshev and Berenshtein for theft of state property on an especially large scale was transferred to the Kuibyshev special court. So in Soviet era special units were named in the structure of all regional courts of the USSR, where criminal cases were heard, in which secret enterprises appeared in one way or another. Judge Alexander Shchupakov, who at that time held the position of chairman of the special court, took over the proceedings in this case. But despite the fact that at that time he only considered materials about thefts, Shchupakov developed his own version of the murder of Igor Berezhny.
“There is no doubt that Berezhnoy was aware of most of the abuses happening at KKBAS,” says Alexander Anatolyevich. - After all, it was he who endorsed many acts for the write-off of material assets. At the same time, I believe that the main organizer of the thefts was not Nerozya at all, but Berenstein, whose role during the investigation turned out to be very blurred.
One day, the head of the KKBAS received information that the regional KGB department was very interested in his department. And this meant that these actions received permission from Moscow. Local initiative in such matters was completely excluded. Then Berezhnoy ordered to stop the theft at least for a while. However, his henchmen balked. But Berezhnoy insisted, and the robbers decided: so as not to be disturbed, the boss should be physically eliminated. Which was done on February 4, 1981.
A reasonable question arises here: why was his murder never solved? After all, this matter was handled not by anyone but the all-powerful KGB. My opinion on this matter is this. As can be seen from the case, in 1984, the investigation into the murder was taken from the hands of the KGB and transferred to the prosecutor's office, whose leadership then received instructions from above not to establish the identity of the customer. It’s just that someone really didn’t want the investigation to turn out to be “ big people"from Moscow, involved in thefts in KKBAS.
It remains to add that in August 1985, according to the verdict of the Kuibyshev special court, Gennady Nerozya received 10 years, and Solomon Berenstein - 8 years in prison. Vladimir Nekhoroshev got off with three years probation. A year later, the Supreme Court of the USSR reduced the sentence for Berenstein to 6 years.

Dossier
Berezhnoy Igor Aleksandrovich, born on April 21, 1934 in Samara. From 1951 to 1957 he studied at Kuibyshevsky aviation institute, then worked here in different departments. Already at that time Berezhnoy showed himself to be a talented experimenter. In 1966, he defended his Ph.D. thesis, and soon, with the assistance of Tupolev, Antonov, Myasishchev and others, the Aircraft and Helicopter Chassis Design Bureau was created as part of the Kuibyshev Aggregate Production Association - specifically “for Berezhny.” In 1971, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, and in 1972, on the basis of the above-mentioned OKB, KKBAS was formed. Berezhnoy headed this bureau until his death. He was the author of more than 200 scientific works, many inventions and scientific and technical developments, the most famous of which was the Glidesada laser aircraft landing system.

Numerous articles have been written about this mysterious murder in print and electronic media, and at the end of 2017, the Rossiya TV channel showed an investigative documentary, “A Bomb for the Chief Designer.” However, none of the authors of these materials managed to answer the main questions: who ordered and killed in February 1981 the chief designer of the Kuibyshev Design Bureau of Automatic Systems of the USSR Ministry of Aviation Industry (KKBAS) Igor Aleksandrovich Berezhny.

How the designer was killed

As the Samara Review wrote, Berezhnoy died on February 4, 1981 in Moscow, where he was on a business trip. Someone asked the designer to bring medicine from the capital. And when Berezhnoy got into the car and opened the box, the explosion tore the car apart. The body of the murdered designer was so disfigured that the deceased was buried in a closed coffin. The scientist's driver was shell-shocked, but no one else was injured as a result of the detonated explosive device.

Who was he? Professor, Doctor of Sciences I. A. Berezhnoy, since 1972, headed KKBAS, which was previously called OKB “Chassis of Airplanes and Helicopters”. As a specialist, he was valued by such aircraft designers as A. Tupolev, O. Antonov and V. Myasishchev. He was the author of over 200 scientific developments in the field of aircraft manufacturing. The designer became most famous for the Glissada laser aircraft landing system. However, as the Volga Commune publication writes, immediately after Berezhny’s murder (the investigation was conducted by the KGB), numerous frauds were revealed in his design bureau, in which Igor Alexandrovich’s subordinates appeared. Investigators argued that Berezhnoy could not have been unaware of these crimes. Employees of the secret design bureau, judging by the results of the investigation, on a large scale appropriated the inventory items allocated for the bureau, mainly the Soviet shortage of that time: from furniture and televisions to imported film and photographic films. Based on these facts, a criminal case was initiated. The total amount of damage caused to the state amounted to over 20 thousand rubles.

Main versions of the assassination attempt

This murder is called the first contract murder in the history of the late USSR. Berezhnoy occupied a high position in Kuibyshev; he was expected to become secretary of the city party committee. Four subordinates of the chief designer of the design bureau were arrested on charges of fraud. During the arrest, one of them managed to poison himself, the other stuck a knife in himself, but he was pumped out. Kuibyshev judge A. A. Shchupakov, who was involved in the proceedings of this case, assured in his interview with Volzhskaya Kommuna that Berezhnoy clearly helped to write off valuables. According to one version, voiced in the film “Bomb for the Chief Designer” on behalf of former designers who worked at KKBAS, the contract killing was connected specifically with the illegal activities of the design bureau. In particular, the planes of the secret enterprise were often used for other purposes by Kuibyshev’s party elite; supposedly the mafia was interested in this aircraft, intending to transport certain cargo on it.

“Samara Review” also cites an exotic hypothesis for the murder of Berezhny, which is connected with L.I. Brezhnev’s beloved flight attendant. The only person involved in the criminal case initiated on the fact of abuses in the KKBAS who has survived to this day, V. Nekhoroshev, who received a suspended sentence, believes that Berezhny was simply removed for show so that other prominent Soviet designers “kept their heads down.” Allegedly, the Americans were very interested in the Glissada system, developed under the leadership of Igor Alexandrovich, and they wanted to lure the scientist to the USA. Opponents of this version argue that there was nothing special about the Glissade; moreover, its parameters were once published by Pravda.

In the end, no one was charged with the murder of I.A. Berezhny (they were cleared of one of the chief designer’s subordinates, who was later convicted of financial fraud in the design bureau). The authors of the film “Bomb for the Chief Designer” requested information about the criminal case initiated on the basis of murder in the archives of the FSB and the Prosecutor General’s Office. But these services reported that they did not have any materials. Thus, the questions of who killed the chief designer and why in 1981 remain unanswered today.

On March 28, 2018, cadets of the 21st course of VI (IT) visited the museum military history"Unknown unfinished war"in the Church of the Icon of the "Joy of the Mother of God of All Who Sorrow" on Shpalernaya Street.

VI(IT) cadets began visiting the military museum in the Church of Sorrow on Shpalernaya Street in April 2017. Since that time, excursions to this museum of military history, organized by teachers of department No. 10 and carried out as part of the cultural studies course, when studying the topic “ Military culture and personality culture of military personnel” become a tradition of our institute. VI(IT) cadets took part in more than ten events (excursions and memorial events) conducted by the temple. In March 2018 alone, the museum was visited by four groups of 21 courses and a group of officers from the faculty of retraining and advanced training.

The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” is located a three-minute walk from the VI (IT) buildings, at the intersection of Shpalernaya Street and Chernyshevsky Avenue. He has a lot in common with our institute. The temple building was created according to the design of the architect Luigi Rusca, who created a complex of buildings for the barracks of the Cavalry Corps, on the site of which our institute is now located. Another thing is also important: this is a temple in which the memory of the military history of Russia is carefully preserved, the memory of soldiers who gave their lives for the Fatherland is honored.

The rector of the temple, Archpriest Vyacheslav (Kharinov), sees his task in preserving the living memory of fallen heroes and, most importantly, in the patriotic education of our contemporaries. “It was spirituality that made our soldiers stronger than the enemy, stronger than the well-armed German army,” says Father Vyacheslav.

At the temple, Father Vyacheslav created the military museum “The Unknown Unfinished War”, dedicated to the defense and siege of Leningrad. The basis of this small museum is made up of objects that preserve the living memory of the war. Here cadets can see authentic soldier's things and hold them in their hands. These are weapons, personal belongings and items soldier's life, letters from front-line soldiers.

Most of the exhibits were found by members of search teams in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, in places where the heaviest and bloodiest battles of the Great Patriotic War took place. Patriotic War. Behind each of these exhibits is the fate of people, the story of their feat, heroic life and death.

The tour of the temple and museum “The Unknown Unfinished War” ends, according to tradition, in the temple refectory with a cup of tea. Here Father Vyacheslav continues his conversation with the cadets about important issues relevant to young people: life and death, love and faith, human spiritual strength, service to the Motherland.

Such excursions have an important educational value: patriotic education should be based on a careful, respectful attitude towards the memory of soldiers who gave their lives for the Fatherland, on a sense of involvement in their life and feat.

Eikhenbaum O.A.